Re: Tesco "Value range" Beef burgers....

I think it's unethical, not to mention, why when a horse would probably take a lot more expense to raise and then, there is the issue of the meat not being safe. If you are buying meat from cattle ranchers, what are they doing, adding the meat from sick horses as a means of cutting costs. Scary! One of your papers states the horse meat came from two farms in Britain and one in Ireland.

Re: Tesco "Value range" Beef burgers....

Re: Tesco "Value range" Beef burgers....

MsPablo wrote:

I think it's unethical, not to mention, why when a horse would probably take a lot more expense to raise and then, there is the issue of the meat not being safe. If you are buying meat from cattle ranchers, what are they doing, adding the meat from sick horses as a means of cutting costs. Scary! One of your papers states the horse meat came from two farms in Britain and one in Ireland.

It depends on what the horsemeat was intended for, & how it slipped into this particular chain that will be investigated.

It doesn't necessarily mean that the horsemeat was 'unfit for human consumption', but rather that it got into products it wasn't meant to without 'Health & Safety' or 'Food Standards' picking it up before it left the Processor.There are issues with this on so many levels, without even looking at the 'Eww'-factor.

Note: Relying on information given by 'the Press' is also a no-no since most of them print in a sensationalist manner (& for whom the 'truth' is a far rarer creature than the dodo)...........no doubt more accurate info will appear over the next few days!

Re: Tesco "Value range" Beef burgers....

I said earlier that I make my own burgers and always have.What I can't understand is why some shoppers buy what they think is a bargain in burgers, ie £1 for 5, or whatever and not be suspicious as to the content. Do they really think they're getting bargain? Very naive.

I also know, having lived in Devon for many years, that the Dartmoor ponies are shipped to France because of their liking for their meat. However, at least now the ponies are slaughtered in England BEFORE being put through the ordeal of being shipped across the channel.

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